China says officers spied for Taiwan

AP AND CNA , BEIJING AND TAIPEI
Saturday, Apr 17, 2004,Page 1

China has arrested nearly a dozen military officers -- including at least four generals -- on charges of spying for Taiwan, a newspaper reported yesterday.

The officers are accused of selling secrets on China's deployment of fighter aircraft and air defenses, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported. It said they were arrested in February and last month.

Most of the those arrested reportedly worked in the Air Force Command Academy, the highest training institute for the air force of the PLA, the Post said.

They were believed to have supplied information on deployment of China's advanced, Russian-designed Su-27 fighter planes, the report said. It said one suspect was the leading officer at the academy and was accused of getting at least US$120,000 from Taiwan.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/04/17/2003136981

The crazies running that government may have seen these guys as political opponents or maybe just disliked them and may have planted the evidence.

They may well be spies, too. That spies would show up among the best, brightest and hardest working in China is a testiment to the corruption inherent in their totalitarian way of governing and/or the discontent of the folks living under that government.

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